Charlotte

Some facts on Pristine Blue. It is copper and run at .9 to 1 ppm. At this level copper will stain both pools and people. It also is not a fast bacteria killer so a residual of chlorine is necessary for sanitation. Also copper is not effective against viruses! Australia has recently outlawed all copper and copper/silver products unless they are used with NORMAL chlorine levels since they do NOT properly sanitize the water! I would not want to take a chance on my family's health! There are only 3 EPA recognized swimming pool SANITZERS....chlorine, bromine, and biguinide! Pristine Blue does have an EPA registration number, as do many copper and copper/silver products but they are considered algaestata and are slow acting bacteriastats. In real life conditions in a swimming pool you need fast kill times! Also, while it is true that white water mold and pink algae (actually a bacteria) can grow in any pool both are faily commen in biguinide pools and only really happen with chlorine and bromine when the pool is neglected...The best treatment for them happens to be chlorine (which cannot be used in a biguinide pool!) I have been using Baquacil for 3 years and didn't have a problem until this summer. I've had a problem all summer with cloudy water and have used everything my dealer told me to do.... to no avail. As of last week my pool turned green. I was told to add 1/2 gallon of sanitizer which I did.. nothing. Then she told me to add another gallon of Oxidizer (shock) which I have been doing evry week - still nothing. After reading all of the remarks in this forum, I believe this is a common problem with Baquacil. I feel I should change over to chorine. Is the process to wait a while until my strips say I'm out of sanitizer and then start adding chlorine - a lot of it? My pool is a 15x30 above ground. When do I know it's ready to take the chlorine? Any other suggestions?

Some facts on Pristine Blue. It is copper and run at .9 to 1 ppm. At this level copper will stain both pools and people. It also is not a fast bacteria killer so a residual of chlorine is necessary for sanitation. Also copper is not effective against viruses! Australia has recently outlawed all copper and copper/silver products unless they are used with NORMAL chlorine levels since they do NOT properly sanitize the water! I would not want to take a chance on my family's health! There are only 3 EPA recognized swimming pool SANITZERS....chlorine, bromine, and biguinide! Pristine Blue does have an EPA registration number, as do many copper and copper/silver products but they are considered algaestata and are slow acting bacteriastats. In real life conditions in a swimming pool you need fast kill times! Also, while it is true that white water mold and pink algae (actually a bacteria) can grow in any pool both are faily commen in biguinide pools and only really happen with chlorine and bromine when the pool is neglected...The best treatment for them happens to be chlorine (which cannot be used in a biguinide pool!) I have been using Baquacil for 3 years and didn't have a problem until this summer. I've had a problem all summer with cloudy water and have used everything my dealer told me to do.... to no avail. As of last week my pool turned green. I was told to add 1/2 gallon of sanitizer which I did.. nothing. Then she told me to add another gallon of Oxidizer (shock) which I have been doing evry week - still nothing. After reading all of the remarks in this forum, I believe this is a common problem with Baquacil. I feel I should change over to chorine. Is the process to wait a while until my strips say I'm out of sanitizer and then start adding chlorine - a lot of it? My pool is a 15x30 above ground. When do I know it's ready to take the chlorine? Any other suggestions?